Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-09-16

4 anu 50 MUCH u Weth ito lohS 40 tiics ~
with US; and precious glad they are OF
it, they are. You see, it's friendly all
round: it pays us; it pays the poor peo-
pie; it pleases the curiosity; and it
amuses the public. If we didn't take
'em into our show, they'd very likely
git sent to the workus, or kicked about
and ill-treated. eos they wouldn't lie
able to earn their own living But
when they're with us, their people gifts
kind O. proud of 'em, and win come
and 'ang around the show, and seem
glad if they can git any one 10 listen to
EN- when they says they're related to
the curiosities inside. There's always
plenty Of offers a-coming to rs. Some
times we buys performing animal off
some circus people when he's old and
not good enough for them. but quite
smart enough for us. Sometimes we
gifts EN- young, and trains 'em our
selves. Sometimes But there
it won't do to tell you heyery thing, or
you'll be writing to the newspapers or
something o that kind
This dark allusion to something
mysterious heightened my curiosity,
md endeavored to draw him out fur
ther, but with no success; and he pres
entity went on again rs follows:
"Payp-Yes, Of course it pays, else
we shouldn't keep on the same lay.
There amt much to be done any
where's in the daytime, and none at all
Just here; but Of a-night, we can fill
the show as many times as we likes;
and although it's only penny, when
there's sixty or seventy people go
in every quarter of an hour,
you see it mounts up. Lots on
EN- goes in three or four times,
they gifts so interested. After one
shows over and fresh batch ready,
some Of those who went in first II come
back and pay agin, p'r'aps bringing a
friend, who was awaiting to hear what
the fust one said about il; and then they
goes in again, eos they can't remem-
her how much the fat lady weighs; or
else they gifts to feel sort o pride that
they've bin to our show more times
than any o their mates. Lor bless you,
sir, | b'lieve some on 'cm feels sorry
hey wasn't born IA curiosity themselves!
Yes, it's always best to git in what's
allied a low neighborhood, though why
t should be called low, dunno. Poor
'cople's pennies are as good as any one
ise's. rs fur as | can make out; and if
my o the young fellers ever gifts OBJ
treperus or a-tcasing of the curosities.
we've only got to speak a bit sharp to
EN-, and they're AS quiet as murderer
fter he's been and got 'anged.'
The reader wll observe that his sim
les We're both forcible and original.
Eyes, about week is the time for
laying in one place sometimes fort
light, and we have run as long as three
weeks when we've had some fust-class
curiosities. But we allus seems to be
moving, and never gifts settled. OF
course, If one of our best attractions
dies, as they often does If the weather's
bad, we have to shut up for n time,
eos it gifts noised about that there
amt half SO much to be seen as is
announced. There never is, you sayp
Well, and wot il there ain'tp Are we
my worse than any one else, l should
like to knowp Is the man what adver-
iises medicine to cure every thing a-tcll-
ing the truth any more than usp Is the
man what waters his milk, and takes
his davy it's pure, any bctterP No; but
Just eos it's us. and our show ain t
quite all what it says on the canvas, we
sits called rogues and swindlcrs.n
| saw it was time to replenish the
empty tumbler; but, in spite of it, l
could get very little more out of the
hoarse-voiced man. | had evidently
touched his dignity, so, wishing him
crowded houses" wherever he went, |
left him to his reflections on the in
capabilities of social adventures gen
orally.
Since then have been to scores OF
penny gaffs. as they are called in the
neighborhoods which are favored will
their visits, and have seen natural de
formities (''fi'eaks of nature" the can
vas generally has iD, wild animal
generally poor beasts which want 10
OF goading before their shot blood
can be got up sufficiently to make then
look fierce), fat women and skeletons
strong men and dwarfs, jugglers an,
acrobats, performing dogs, snake
charmers, and latterly, "thought-read
erS;" the aforementioned having al
been pupils of the leading thought
readers of the day, and paid fabulou
sum for their initiation into the man,
mysteries of the art, Sometimes thu
tricks done are really clever; sometime
AS transparent as crystal; often, by tn,
aid of an accomplish, who, despite hi
endeavors to appear to be one of tn,
crowd, can generally be picked out b,
the discerning, because he invariabl,
ovcrdoes his part; and sometimes the,
are not tricks at all, but miserable at
tcmpts, which deceive nobody. But tn,
people who go to see them are satisfied
and that is every thing. They can Civ,
u penny where they could not aflor,
sixpence; and, if the entertainment i
not intellectual, it is certainly not yer,
harmful, the only real objectionabl,
feature being the exhibition of natural
or more correctly speaking, mnatura
human deformities. - Chambers Jour
nal
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